Hold back official intelligence after leader's deposed (7)
I believe the answer is:
refrain
'hold back' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'official intelligence after leader's deposed' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'official' could be 'ref' (match official in football, say) and 'ref' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'rain' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for refrain that I've seen before include "Desist, abstain" , "Kindly desist - from song?" , "Words repeated after verses" , "Do without" , "Chorus of a song" .)